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View Poll Results: Are polls usually correct?
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11-03-2005
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#1 (Post Link)
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Are polls usually correct?
This poll is inspired by another thread in the images lounge
(Thanks Hans  ) |
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
No Martini and no rice pudding.
What is a man to do?
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11-03-2005
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
Do we have to answer this poll? |
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11-03-2005
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
Polls are usually incorrect, as this poll will show......... 
Hang on, if this poll shows polls are incorrect, and it's incorrect, that means polls are usually correct
I'm going for as beer |
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11-03-2005
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
Doesn't this poll mean that we would have to have a pre-poll
to define what "usually" means |
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11-03-2005
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
Originally Posted by Fraser
Polls are usually incorrect, as this poll will show.........
Hang on, if this poll shows polls are incorrect, and it's incorrect, that means polls are usually correct
I'm going for as beer
Agreed, polling is a paradox...
Is Pasi a paradox too?? Or is he just an irony?? |
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
Originally Posted by Fraser
Hang on, if this poll shows polls are incorrect, and it's incorrect, that means polls are usually correct
Good point!  |
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
Originally Posted by Antonio Chico
Agreed, polling is a paradox...
Is Pasi a paradox too?? Or is he just an irony??
Or a paradony, or maybe an ironox............. |
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
If it rust, it must be iron. |
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12-03-2005
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
When polls are prepared with no ambiguity then they are correct
Unfortunately this is not the case here
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
Reported polling data is almost always rubish - you can prove anything you want to by the way you ask the question, and who you ask it to. The average layperson has no idea about statistical reliabilty & significance nor the danger on generalizing results of a small sample to a whol population. Great fun on a forum like this but dangerous as hell when politicians and large companies such as drug manufacturers use polls to mislead the public...
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
Originally Posted by THROTTLEMAN
If it rust, it must be iron.
Talking about rusty???
Who BTW showed up right after this comment 
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
Originally Posted by Antonio Chico
Agreed, polling is a paradox...
Is Pasi a paradox too?? Or is he just an irony??
I'm an ironic paradox
That's what it's all about to be The Mad Poll Maker
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
Interesting results so far
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Re: Are polls usually correct?
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